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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-10-15

Mr. Henry F. Poor gives very inter
esting description of the Samoan Islands
in the planters Monthly" For the
benefit of our readers we give two
articles on history and government,
which are well worthy of perusal. par
ticularly at the present time, when
Samoan affairs are attracting so much
attention.
HISTORY.
These islands were first noticed bv the
Dutch "Three ship expedition" in 1922.
They were next visited by the French
circumnavigator BougainviIIe in 1853,
who gave them the name of Navigators
on account of their dexterity with their
canoes. They were subsequently visited
by La Perouse in 1887 and Cook in 1871.
Two officers and ten men being mas
sacred at Tqtuila, the islands were for a
long time afoided and dreaded; but it is
to be noted that the Frenchnden were de-
Gently buried in white tapds and the
natives claimsd they simply revenged
an aggravation on the part of the visit
from Tahiti in 1880. He was kindly
received and assisted on Savaii by NAL
ietoa, and in few years he and his
teachers overcame the mild form of
heathenism existing and won a complete
victory for Christianity.
Though the Malicious have ever been
the leading and ruling family in Samoa,
they have not always exercised absolute
authority and each district has ruled
itself independently, though until the
Tupua family rose all acknowledged
Malietoa, though often engaged in tribal
wars against each other These wars
have continued at frequent intervals,
and since the Tupuas rose up into rivalry
with the Malicious there have been fire.
quent conflicts between the two families
and their adherents.
These wars are very barbarous and
cruel, creating distressing havoc, desc
lation and lamentations among the peo-
pie, desolating whole villages and des-
troying vast numbers of cocoaDuts,
breadfruits and other food products.
The first attempt to organize Samoa
under one head was made in 1873. The
record Of events since that date may be
found in reports previously sent to the
Foreign Office.
GOVERNMENT.
AS stated before, the supreme author
ity has always vested Malicious, though
there has ever existed state of chronic
anarchy among the various districts who
acted, and still act, as independent
states. There has been various abortive
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-10-15
The Changes of the Earth's Surface.

Therecent appearance of a new island in
one of the Pacific ocean groups illustrates
the fact that hundreds of geographers
and surveyors have all they can do to
keep their work abreast of the never
ending physical changes of the earth's
surface Great Britain employs ten ships
and 900 men in its admiralty surveys,
and much of their work consists in max
ing new charts of waters that were care
fII3y surveyed from ten to thirty years
ago New surveys along the east and
west coasts of England last year showed
important changes in depths and other
features have occurred since the previous
surveys. Navigation charts are likely
after ten or twelve years to be as value
less for purposes of present information.
as a last months newspaper.-Boston
Transcript.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-10-15
Remarkable Feat in Book Renovation.

A Frenchman named Lahontan has
Just accomplished remarkable feat In
book-renovation. He had sent him
copy of Coverdale's Bible that was COM
pleteIy saturated with fat, and had been
badly eaten by mice. His process was to
treat each leaf to judicious course of
chlorine In solution and ammonia, while
the dirt was removed by some process
only known to himself. He then sup
Piled the defective portions by carefully
grating on selected pieces of paper of
the requisite texture and shade. The
missing letter-press was fac-similed, the
whole was then sized and afterwards ap-
propriately bound by one of the best
Partisan binders, the whole cost of this
treatment being $500. Prank LesIieIs.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-10-15

Tomorrow, October 10th, is the
twelfth anniversary of the birth of H.
r. H. Princess Kaiulani. There will
be no celebration, owing to the recent
death of her mother, the late Princess
Likelike. May the little Princess have
many happy returns of the day.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-10-15

The Honolulu Almanac and Directory
for 1887 is now on sale at ]. II. Soper's
and A. NJ. Hewett's news depots, and at
this Office. Price. so cents.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-10-15
T II E
THE Kaimiloa is up for sale.

IN England husband grabbing" is
the picturesque name given to a newly
recognized form Of crime.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-10-15

THREE years ago tomorrow the Hon.
Mrs. Bernice Pauahi Bishop died. It
hardly seems a year since the sad event.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-10-15

The German bark Peter Goddefroy, from
Liverpool, is now 165 days out. This is
an unusually long passage.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-10-15

AS stated before, the supreme author
ity has always vested Malicious, though
there has ever existed a state of chronic
anarchy among the various districts who
acted, and still act, as independent
States. There has been various abortiye
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-07-14
Advice to a HoodIum's Father.

Judge Noonan occasionally says as good
thing as was ever uttered by any of the Irish
barristers whose witticisms were preserved
for us by the chroniclers Of the sessions of the
Monks of the Screw. The other day a Young
fellow with very good reputation was
brought before him charged with assault with
intent to kill. 1t was proved that his life had
been threatened by gang of hoodlums, and
he had asked protection from the police.
None was given him, and so, when he was
attacked by a party of them while he was at
tending to his business, he drew a pocket
knife and cut one of them.
1t was clearly a case of self defense, and
Judge Noonan discharged the young man, at
the same time telling the prosecuting hood
lum, who was in court with his father, that
If he didn't stop his attacks on respectable
people he'd get cut all to pieces some day.
The rascal went out of the court room surlily,
but his father fingered, not at all satisfied
with the result of the trial, and when the
judge came down from the bench he accosted
him impudently. Judge" said he. snow that
you've let that man go, what satisfaction do
Iget!" "You," replied the judge, looking
the complainant over leisurely. SOh, well,
you can go across the street to that saloon
yonder and damn this court. st Louis
Globe-Democrat
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-07-14
Boys Should Learn Trades.

Too much of the fault is in the folly of pa
rents who, in the idiotic expectation that lucky
chance will open way to easy acquisition of
wealth in mercantile or professional life, per-
NIT their boys to grow up in idleness, instead
of sending them into mechanics workshops
to learn trades This stupid folly has become
almost universal A blacksmith or carpenter
may have difficulty in finding an intelligent
boy to work in his shop, but let a merchant
or professional man advertise for an Office
boy, messenger, or packer, at 81 or So
week, and he will have applicants by the
score, in spite of the certainty that only
something like miracle can ever advance
the successful one to a grade of service in
which he will earn as much as a fair me-
shanic. Infinitely better than this would be
the ancient custom Of some European coun-
tries, where it was required that every boy
should learn some trade, whatever the wealth
or position of his family might be.
No social, moral, or industrial reform is
more necessary for the public welfare than
the restoration of boys to their proper place
In the mechanic arts, and the consequent dis
bandment of the armies of adolescent black
guards whose detachments are being trained
in the worst associations of city life to become
utterly worthless and intolerable nuisances,
Chicago Times
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-07-14
Mr.. Depew and the English Lord.

Apropos of English lack of humor, the fol-
lowing good story is told by Ben Butterworth
on the Hon. Chauncey M. Depew:
Depew was visiting London on one occa-
sion, and was entertained at a dinner of the
lords of the realm. Being called on for
speech, be began by saying that he arose with
much embarrassment before such company
for the reason that his friend Gen. Horace
Porter, who usually wrote for him the re-
marks he made on such occasions, was absent.
He then went on to make the best of the situ-
alton, and made what he thought was fairly
funny speech; but not a sign of appreciation
was given, and he sat down feeling that he
had made failure His feeling was verified
when he heard the presiding lord express sor-
row that Mr.. Depew was deprived of the as
sistance of his friend, for they had understood
he was a capital after dinner speaker.
Two days later he met this presiding lord,
who said:
20, Mr.. Depew, do you know that have
come up to London expressly to say to you
that did not see the humor of your speech
until the day after the dinner. l am sorry
we were all so stupid, but now we all agree
that it was a capital speech, and that we
wasted our sympathy in taking your refer
ence to your friend Porter as in earnest"
"My lord" said Depew, "did you ride to
London on freight trainp
"No, oh, no." said the lord in a tone of sur
prise. al came on the passenger train. 1
never ride on freights.D
Four days later Mr.. Depew was astonished
to see this lord in Paris
II have come" said the lord, expressly to
tell you that never saw the point of your
question about my riding to London on a
freight train until the next day; why, sir,
that's finer bit of hnmor than the other
about your friend Porter"
Mr.. Depew was satisfied that to scatter
humor among the English was unsatisfactory
Kansas City Times. -.s.s,a.-
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-07-14
LIFE ON THE ISTHMUS.
A Constant Strain of Excitement-A Rail
road Confioctor,s Trials-The Canal

A Constant Strain of Excitement-A Rail-
road Conductors Trials-The Canal.
"The isthmus at present, " said gentleman
who had just returned after a two months
miserable sojouTn on the isthmus, ''is the
most undesirable place to live on that know
of. Nothing could drag me down there
again. The early days of California with
their scenes Of hardship, robbery and death,
wouldn't hold candle to the condition of
affairs at Panama. One lives under a con-
slant strain of excitement, and the work on
the canal, with the fair rate OF wages that is
paid, has attracted to the spot the offscourlng
of the earth. Night is turned into day, and
the scenes of debauchery and unlicensed re-
straint do not end with daylight. The sums
of money that are being spent there are al
most fabulous when the results are con-
sidered. The most valuable machinery,
which has cost thousands upon thousands to
bring there, is going to ruin. Money seems
to flow plentifully from somewhere, and no
one seems to care to hoard it when it gets
there. Life? Lives are considered of less
value than the machinery, and that's not
saying much.
"We arrived there Just about the time
several United States war vessels dropped
anchor in the harbor. They had been sum-
moned to the spot to protect the interests OF
an American who had been arrested for
murder and who it was feared would be dealt
little mercy. He had been a conductor on
the railroad which runs across the isthmus.
The conductors, by the way, are pretty
tough lot, l must admit. In fact, the ability
to take hard knocks and shoot well are about
the only qualifications required. The supply
is generally secured in Texas For bell
punches the conductors, as might be sup
posed, carry the regulation 4S-caliber re-
volver. When the natives around the stations
along the road are spelling for a fight they
board the trains and refuse to pay their fares.
This diversion relieves the monotony of their
existence as well as that of the conductors.
The man who had been arrested had run
across sample lot of this kind one day. The
fare was demanded and refused. Texans,
that is the dyed in the wool kind, are not
easily bluffed. So our man, giving his re-
volver a hitch, told the crowd it was fares or
no ride. As he turned to reach for the bell
rope one Of the Isthmians drew his ever ready
knife and sprang at him. There was no time
for delay, for the train was fairly well
crowded with the fellows countrymen, and
indecision meant death and the loss of the
fares too So, true to his employers, the con-
ductor drew his pistol and punched his fare
with q great round hole. And he held the
whole crowd at bay until he delivered himself
to the authorities, such as they WERE Idont
know how it was, but the war vessels hadn't
been there for any length of time before the
conductor had escaped. They said he had
bribed his jailers.-"Obselver" in Philadel-
phia Call
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-07-14
Clean Fairs.

How often do those who advocate the
exclusion from agricultural exhibitions
of the sale of beer and intoxicating
drinks, gambling devices, and immoral
schemes of every kind. lind themselves
met by the assertion that without these
the fair cannot exist! So often and so
strenuously is this claim urged that
many good people have come to believe
it, and 20 tolerate from supposed neces>
sity what their better natures abhor. 1t
is refreshing to discover an occasional
practical demonstration that this as
sumption is false; and we will add, on
our own account, by the way, that such
demonstrations are occasional because
the experiment of running fair wholly
without these Objectionable features is
only occasional The fair at Hornellsville.
n. Y, held under the auspices of the
Hornellsville Farmers Club, is fine
example of what clean management can
do in making an exhibition rousing
success. The club goes to what many
people would consider an extreme in
shutting the gates against immoral de-
vices, ETC., and last year refused bribe
of several thousand dollars offered as an
inducement for changing its plans. The
net profit of the fair of 1886 was
S4.024 90.
These figures speak for themselves.
Fairs should be kept clean because it is
RIGHT that these things be excluded
which the history of the fair mentioned
shows is the motive in its own case. But
if reform in this particular can in many
cases rest on no better than mercenery
grounds, here is evidence that the press
ence of the saloon and wheel of fortune
are NOT necessary to the existence of a
a fair.-National Stockman.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-07-14
Street Cars in Mexico.

Another amusing oddity is that the street
cars run in groups, one never being seen
alone nor two together, but always three or
four in a row less than half a block apart.
Instead of starting from the terminus one
every five or ten minutes, several are started
at once every half hour. To run each car it
requires two conductors, besides the driver,
and also, in many places, two or three SOL
diers armed capapie. The first conductor
approaches passenger, sells him ticket,
and pc ckets the money, and soon the second
conductor comes along and takes up the bit
of printed pasteboard; meanwhile the brass
buttoned guardians of the peace stand glow
ering upon you, with suspicious eyes and
loaded carbines. In some respects the double
conductor system is better than the ''punch
in the presence of the passengairen mode of
the United States; but though the soldiers
are provided to insure the safety of passen-
gers from robbers and revolutionists, a timid
person is more worried by their presence
than by the possible dangers they are sup
posed to avert.-Sacramento Record.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-07-14
A DUEL IN ALGERIA.
An Arabian in the French Service
Fights an Editor in a Bedroom.

An Arabian in the French Service
Fights an Editor in a Bedroom.
There was formerly in the French service
in Algeria general Of Arab origin, Yusuf
by name. One day all Algeria was moved
to laughter by satirical sketch of Cen
Yusuf in the local papers under the title of
"Monsieur Joujou." The writer, it was said,
was NJ Arthur de Fronvielle, the editor of
the paper, who took the responsibility. Soon
after, one fine morning, tie journalist heard
terrible knocking at the door. %Come inl"
1t was Gen. Yusuf who showed his Arab
visage at the threshold He was followed by
an ordnance officer. N de Frunvielle was
still lying TRANQUILITY in bed @Are you II.
de Fronv1elleG" asked the general ayes"
GWas it you that called me M Joujour We
must fght!" HAt your command, general
I will have couple of my friends @No!
moi None of that nonsenseI" thundered
Yusuf. awe fill fight Immediately. Under
standl I want to kill you!" &Ahl in that
case permit me to rise And where shall we
fight, if you please, general?" fright hereln
@In my bedroomT SYes" HAll right And
this gentleman will serve as a witness!"
ayes" %Very well Pm ready for you now"
YuSuf drew his saber, and at a sign his
ordnance officer did the same The bedroom
was very small-nothing cheerful about this
strange duel STake your choice, monsieur"
said the general, holding out both swords.
Fronvielle took the officers saber. Yusuf
threw off his tunic, rolled up his sleeves, and
held his saber in his bare arm, which was
corded with the muscles of an athlete His
white teeth shone from his swarthy face.
Uttering yells like a jackal, and bounding
like tiger, savage and frightful, he was
making ready to transfix his adversary with
his first stroke. This stroke the newspaper
man Tended, but it cut him terribly on his
right arm Yusuf stuck the point of his
saber in the floor and said: sYou can't use
your arm; to continue the combat would be
murder. We will finish this affair after YOU
are cured" NJ de Fronvielle saluted
The second day after the fight the general
presented himself at the wounded mans
lodging, and regularly every morning there.
after. II hope you will forgive me for get.
ting well so slowly, general; little patience
and l am with you," said Fronvielle. II
am very patient" answered Yusuf. When
the wounded man was able TO go out at last.
Gen Yusuf was the first to meet him. But
1t was TO offer him his arm and ask him to
lean on it. All his anger had slowly changed
to esteem. Courier
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-07-14
Children on the streets.

One of the saddest sights on the streets at
night is the number Of little children who ere
out at almost any hour up to IL o'clock.
Streets like Pitts, South Margin, Friend and
the rest of the slummy neighborhoods swarm
with boys and girls playing at noisy games,
apparently without thought of going to bed
or being sleepy, at a time when well to do
boys and girls are sound asleep How do
they live and grow to maturity? They must
be astir in the morning Is it hollow su-
perstition that children must sleep ten or
twelve hours a day! Or have the parents of
these children no doctors or priests to tell
them that youngsters should be in bed be-
times? Belated, the other night, the Listener
passed through Sudbury street at 11:15, and,
at the corner of Court street, he saw two
little ragged boys, not more than or z
years old, hatless and coatless, who looked
like tiny Jews, tossing penny into the air
and playing at heads and tails. They were
apparently quite unconscious Of the hour,
and saw and heard nothing about them, so
intent were they upon their play. What
form Of our multifarious organized benevo-
lence will attend to the putting of the street
babies to bed at a proper hour?-Boston
TRANSCRIPT 'tIiStenern
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-07-14
THE LESSON OF THE FLAGS.
Clermont Courier.

Clermont Courier.
GIVE those trophies of war up to the rebels
VI from whom they were captured Never,
-Fayette County Herald.
DEBEL FLAG Cleveland sticks in the crsw
IL of Democratic soldiers down this way.
Ripley Bee and Times.
ONLY one thing shines lnmiuously out
" and that is the flags will not be returned.
Lebanon Gazette.
NIVIDLY is the story of the bravery of
' the boys in blue told in those old flags.
-Ironton Register.
OWEN conceding his authority (where su-
IL thority he had none) the insult still
rankles. -Norwalk Reflector.
DEBELS at Appomsttox yielded, even as
LII Cleveland does now, Ohio again leading.
Dayton Journal.
DEMOCRATIC papers defend Grover in
~ the rebel fisg business-as a matter of
course. Springfield Republic.
A soon as the order became known a
"a storm of Indignation arose in every 10y
al State. -Ashtabula Sentinel.
DOLLING thunder in the North frighten-
III ed Cleveland into resembling his odious
order. Eaton Register.
EITHER quit reading the papers, OF have
II Congress pass sedition law, dear Grover.
Cincinnati Telegram.
MOT one of twenty three Democratic Gov
IN errors entered protest against the sur
render. -Times>Star.
OUR Flag g-surrendering War Department
~ does not at all approve of Phil Sheridan.
Commercial Gazette.
ITO Grover Cleveland: My Dear Sir-Never
Il tickle the heels of Yankee mule.
jackson Standard.
GOV. V.FORAKER struck straight out from
" the shoulder sumner to Cleveland.
Clinton Republican.
1T is interesting to observe how small a
l. hole so large President can crawl out at.
--Hillsboro News>Herald.
VERY little the Democratic papers have
to say about the rebel flag question.
Wilmington Journal
EVERY one of those flags is spotted and
II some Of them saturated with Northern
blood. -Chillicothe Leader.
THE Presidents rebel flag policy is the
i worst of all politics. 1t is disloyalty.
Ohio State Journal.
written in blood-every
LII stitch of every fold is consecrated by a
hero's life Western Star.
LIVERY citizen of the North felt that his
IL State was to be basely insulted and
robbed. champion City Times.
MATURE deliberstion of the country will
vi knock out Cleveland and the Bsurbons.
Columbus Dispatch Qnd.)
DY all means let the Democrats run Gruvs
ID ler Cleveland and JEFF. Davis in 'SS!
-Scioto Gazette.
A DAMNING record, Grover Cleveland,
n first official acknowledgment of ''the
G. S. A" Columbus Capital Dem.
CAPTURED Confederate flags will be a
" very appropriate windiDg>sheet for Gro
yer in '8S. Cleveland Leader.
II NOCKING around the Confederate OUT
N house, Mr.. Cleveland fell into the vault.
Mt. Vernon Republican.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-07-14

THE breath of a chronic catarTh pa.
tient is often so offensive that he can>
not go into society and be becomes an
object of disgust. After time ulcera-
tion sets in, the spongy bones are at
tackled and frequently destroyed. A
constant source of discomfort is the
dripping of the purulent secretions into
the throat sometimes producing invet-
crate bronchitis. which in its turn has
been the exciting cause of pulmonary
disease. The brilliant results which
have attended its use for years past
properly designate Ely's Cream Balm as
by far the best and only real cure. 2t
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-07-14
Excitement In Texas.

Great excitement has been caused in the
vicinity of Paris, Texas, by the remarkable
recovery of Mr. J E Cerley, who was so
helpless he could not turn in bed, or raise his
head; everybody said he was dying of con-
a trial bottle of DIR Kings New
Discovery was sent him; finding relief, he
bought large bottle and box of DR. Kings
New Life Pills. by the time he had taken two
boxes of pills and two bottles of the discovery,
he was well and had gained in flesh thirty,six
pounds. Trial bottles of this Great Discovery
FOR consumption free at Patterson L Sons. 81